Workman&#39;s time-recorder



J. A LOYSTER & D. M. TUTTLE.

WORKMANS TlME RECORDER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.19,1916.

1,280,506. Patented Oct. 1, 1918.

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1. A. LUYSTER & D- M. TUTTLE. WORKMA N'S TIME RECORDER.

I APPLICATION HLED DEC.'I9,1916.' 1,280,506. Patented 00t.1, 1918.

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WORKMANS TIME RE0RDER.

APPLICATION HLED DEC. 19. 1916- a SHEETSSHLIEEI 3.

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 a I I u I I I I I I I n v 11 V. wrLznvk Arron/vs UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES A. LOYSTER, OF CAZENOVIA, AND DANIEL M. TUTTLE, 0F CANASTOTA, NEW

YORK.

WORKMANS TIME-RECORDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1918.

Application filed December 19, 1916. Serial No. 137,883.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JAMES A. Lors'rnn and DANIEL M. Tom, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Cazenovia and Canastota, respectively, in the county of Madison, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Workmens Time-Recorders, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in workmens time recorders, involving the use of a time-card somewhat similar to that set forth in our pending application, Serial No. 84,333, filed March 15, 1916, in which the card bears a series of, in this instance seven, definite concentric spaces, one

for each day of the week, the concentric spaces being divided into twelve equal radial spaces representing twelve working hours of a day and each hour space subdivided into ten equal spaces representing one tenth of an hour or six minutes, the hour spaces being numbered clockwise from 1 to 12 inclusive.

The main {object is to provide simple means for recording in or upon the proper space of the card the time of arrival and departure of the corresponding workman or the beginning and ending of work upon any job for which the card is designated by simply inserting the-card in the machine and operating a suitable manual.

Another object is to provide means whereby the record of ins and outs may be contained on the same card through the twenty-four hours of any day, and at the same time distinguishing the day records from the night or overtime records, so that the timekeeper may readily compute the total wage due for either period. I

A further object is to prevent any possibility of making a record upon the card in case it should be improperly inserted into the machine.

Other objects and uses relating to specific parts of the recorder will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a front elevation of aworkmans time recorder, embodying the various features of my invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged horizontal sectional view of the same machine taken on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of a portion of the prime mover taken in the plane of line 3-3, Fig. 2.

Figs. 4 and 5 are enlarged transverse vertical sectional views taken, respectively, on lines 4-4 and 5-5, Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view taken in the plane of line 6-6, Fig. 2.

Fig. 7 is a longitudinal vertical section taken in approximately the plane of line 77, Fig. 2.

Fig. 8 is a face view of one of the workmans time-cards as used in the recorder.

The recorder shown comprises a case 1- having suitable guides 2 and -2--v opening through its upper side for permitting the insertion of an impression-receiving element, such as a time-card A-, into one or the other of a pair of impressionmaking devices presently described, for recording, respectively, the times of arrival and departure or ins and outs of a worlunan or the times of beginning and ending of work on any particular job for which the card may be designated, said guides being readily distinguished by the words in'and out printed or otherwise impressed thereon in plain view of the operator.

The impression-making devices are preferably of the punch-and-die type housed within the case 1, and each comprises a pair of coaxial circular disks 3 and 3 arranged end to end in slightly spaced relation so that the intervening space will be in exact vertical alinement with the corresponding guides 2 and, 2- and of just sufficient width to permit the card A to pass easily between the adjacent faces of said disks.

The disks of each pair are rotatably mounted on separate coaxial bearings and 4' and are provided with spirally arranged rows of registering apertures and -5 extending therethrough parallel with their axes for receiving suitable punches or plungers -6 which are additionally supported by a supplemental guide disk 7 and are movable across the space between the disks -3 and 3' against the action of separate retracting springs -8 for punching holes in the interposed adjacent faces of the disks -3-- and 3,

leaving the cutting ends of the plungers normally at one side of the card space between the last-named disks.

The plungers or punches 6- of each impression-making device extend around the axis of the disks -3 and 3' in an involute curve of one convolution or through a complete circle and in equally spaced radial lines so that their distances from the center of the disks gradually diminish from one end to the opposite end of the series, the number being twice that of the concentric spaces on the time-card -A, or fourteen in each series, two for each of the seven days of the week, coupled in sequence from end to end of the series.

The distances of the several couples of plungers from the center of the disks correspond sequentially to the distances of the several concentric spaces from the center of the card A- when the latter is placed coaxiall'y with said disks ready to receive an impression, but the distance of the punches of each-couple from the center differs in such manner that the one farthest from the center will punch the card near the outer edge of its concentric space to represent one end of a period of day work, while the one nearer the center will punch the card in the same space, but nearer the inner margin thereof, to represent one end of a period of night work or overtime.

The form of the punches for making the in records are different (in this instance round) from that of the punches for making the out records, which, in this instance, are square, thus producing distinctive holes in the corresponding concentric spaces of the card -A-.

The cutting or punching eiiiciency of the punches is greatly increased by providing the latter with reduced hardened metal cutting ends playing in corresponding apertures in hard metal linings 10 on the adjacent faces of the disks -3 and 3', while the remaining portions of the apertures, particularly in the female die-disk -3 are relatively larger than those in the linings 10 to allow the punched-outport-ions of the card to readily fall away.

Suitable means is provided forproperly centering the card A in either of the guides relatively to the corresponding sets of disks 3 and 3 and also for preventing the operation of the punches in case the card should not be properly centered to receive correct impressions, and, for this purpose, each workmans card or job card. as the case may be, is provided with a hole -a in the center of its concentric series of day spaces of sufiicient size to receive a centering plunger -11.

This plunger is reciprocally movable in coaxial guide openings in the bearings r--- and 4 and disks -3 and 3, as shown more clearly in Figs. 2 and 4, but is normally withdrawn to the side of the card space between the disks at which the bearing -1 is located so as to allow the card to be inserted in said space and its central hole -a. registered with the adjacent end of the plunger, under which conditions the plunger may be moved endwise into the opening aof the card to properly center the latter while the punch impressions are being recorded therein.

As a. further means for assuring the proper centering of the cards, one corner of the end thereof which is to enter the guide first is recessed or notched at e to receive a corresponding ledge or projection 12- at the inner end of each of the guide; 2- and -2 so that if the card is prop-- erly inserted in either guide, its notch a'- will register with the adjacent ledge -12- and cause its hole a. to register with the plunger 11 read tor the recordii'ig operation.

But, on the other hand. if the card is insorted in either guide so that any of its other corners encounter the ledge -12-. its central hole awill be out of alinenicnt with the plunger 11-- and the interposed portion of the card willpreventthe operation of the plunger and recording punches, as will be apparent from the following description.

That is,the plunger 11 and punches 6- are operated manually by the wot-in man to record the times of beginning and ending of his work through. the mediiim of an external hand-crank -13 or equivalent device on one end of a suitable shaft ll-- which is journaled in the case 1.

Secured to this shaft -1lis a pair of forked arms l5- coiiperating with the grooved hubs, as 16, of apair of disks 1'7 which are movable rotarilv and axially upon their respective bearingc for operating any one of the corresponding set of punches 6.

These forked arms 15 are connected by springs 18 to separate upright levers 19 of the first kind having their upper ends connected to the outer ends of the corresponding plungers --11- to shift the latter axially and their lower ends connected by links 20 to suitable rock-arms 21,

which, together with the levers 19--, are pivoted to the case 1, as shown in Figs. l, 5 and 6. i

The annular grooves in the hubs 16 are somewhat wider than the portions of the arms 15- engaged therein so as to allow a limited movement of said arms before operating the disks -17 or punches controlled thereby, during which limited movement the springs 18 will operate the levers 19- for forcing the plungers 1l endwise and causing one of them to enter the registering central opening in the card which has previously been inserted in the corresponding guide to receive the impression of the punch then registering with the operating part of the disk 17-.

Each disk -l7 is provided with a radial rib -17 adapted to register successively and separately with the punches --6 of the corresponding set, and when the card is properly placed in one of the guides and nnmediately following the entrance of the plunger 11 into the central opening of such card, the continued rotary movement of the hand-crank l3- in the same direction causes the rib -l7 to engage and 0p erate the punch -6 which may be registered therewith to punch a hole in the card in the space corresponding to the day and time when this operation takes place.

If, however, the card should be placed in one of the guides with its hole a out of registration with the corresponding plunger,

it would act as a stop to prevent the inward movement of such plunger, while the companion arm 15, as actuated by the hand-crank -13-, would simply move through its limited are as determined by the width of the groove in the hub 16 against the action of the spring 18-.

Under these conditions, provision is made to prevent further movement of the varm 15 and disk 17 consisting in arranging the inner ends of the links 20 normally in the paths of shoulders 15 on the hubs of the arms -15, so that if either plunger is stopped by the presence of a portion of the card, the shoulder l5 will encounter the adjacent end of the link -20 and therebv prevent the operation of the punch with which the rib 17 of the punch-actuating disk 17-may then be registered.

The card A is provided with a timeindicating dial -B- consisting of a series of, in this instance seven, concentric spaces, one for each day of the week, which are divided by radial lines into a series of, in this instance twelve, equal sectors, one for each hour of a twelve hour day, and numbered clockwise from 1 to 12, each sector bein subdivided by radial lines into ten equa spaces or six-minute intervals of time.

Suitable chronometer-controlled or chronometer-actuated means is provided for retating the punch-actuating disk -l7 intermittingly one six-minute space of the carddial -B at a time, or one complete revolu tion every twelve hours, said means consisting, in this instance, of a thirty-tooth ratchet wheel 22 and a pawl 23- which is mounted on a lever 24 and operated to rotate said wheel one tooth space at a time by a spring motor 25--.

A solenoid -2(3 is conected to the lever 2 t to retract the pawl against the action of the spring 25, said solenoid being electrically connected with a suitable chronometer-actuated circuit closer -27, Fig. 1, capable of energizing the solenoid intermittingly once every six minutes.

This ratchet wheel -22 is securedto a shaft -28+ carrying a pinion 29 which meshes with another pinion 30- on a separate shaft 3l-, said shafts -2S and 3l bein journaled in the case -1 parallel with and in a vertical plane between the disks 17- (see Figs. 2 and 7).

The ratchet wheel +22-- is adapted to be locked in each position of adjustment by the awl 23-, and for this purpose is provided with a concentric series of shoulders 22 adapted to be engaged by shoulder -Q4.- on the lever 24- as the pawl is advanced by the spring 25, said ratchet wheel being also held against backward movement by a detent 23'.

The solenoid 26 is provided with an adjustable stop +26 for limiting the movement of its plunger in one directlon to a degree just sufficient to withdraw the pawl 23 from one tooth and engage it with the next adjacent tooth.

Both of the disks 17 are provided with peripheral gear teeth meshing with opposite faces of the inion 30-, the gears and pinion being 0 such ratio that each intermittent movement of the ratchet wheel -22 will cause the disks -17- to move through an arc corresponding to one of the six-minute subdivisions on the dial -B- or one complete revolution every twelve hours.

The disks 3- andalso the disks -3 are provided with peripheral gears, all meshing with an intermediate pinion -32 which is loose on the shaft 31- for a purpose presently described, the ratio being the same as that between the pinion 30 and gear-disks 17.

The pinion -3Q and incidentally the disks 3- and 3 are driven by the pinion 30 through the medium of an escapement mechanism adapted to be automatically tripped once during each revolution of the disks l7 for a purpose presently described, and consists of a pawl or plate 33- slidably mounted in a dia metrically extending recess in the end face of the pinion 30- adjacent the pinion -32 and' provided with a" pair of reverscly arranged yielding stop pawls at opposite sides of the shaft -,31- around which the plate or pawl 33 extends.

These stop pawls are springpressed in the direction of rotation of the pinions 30- and 32-'- to alternately engage one or the other of a series of, in this instance four, stop pins on the adjacent end of the pinion +32' in equally spaced relation so that when the plate or pawl 33 is moved diametrically in one direction one of the pawls will be in" position to engage one of the pins; while the other pawl will be withdrawn froinengagement with another pin, previously engaged thereby.

The length of the pawl or plate 33' is about equal to the diameter of the ear 80 uponwhich it is mounted, aniiits ends are tapered or pointed so; that when moved in either direction; to its limit, its end in the same directionwill lie in'- the path of movement of-a shoulder on one of the disks 17 to be e'm eeaaereby and shifted in the opposite direction to cause the other pointed endto be engaged by the same shoulder at the end of the next revolution of the same disk. v

The loose pinion -32 is connected by coil spring -37 ton coaxial gear 3'2 which is also loose on the same shaft'3l" and meshes with one of, pair oftight gears 3S on a stub shaft 38 the other gear 38 meshing, with a tight gear 39 on the shaft 3'1"' adjacent the gear -32'.

The gears 32, -38 and are so proportioned as to cause the loose gear 32" to travel at a slightly rate or speed than that of the pinion 32', while the disks '3 and 3 arebeing driven at the same speed as the disks 17 by their respective pinions" 32' and 30- so that the slight diflerence' in the speed of rotation of the spring-"connected gears --3 2 and 32 causes the coil spring 37 to be wound up or placed under greater tension during each complete revolution of the disks 3" and 3 and 17 sufii'cient to drive the pinion 32 one pin (35') space backward, in this" instance, one-fourth of a revolution as" soon as said pinion -'32 is released by the tripping of the pawl 33 through the medium of the shoulder This limited backward movement of the pinion +32' is instantaneous and causes the disks -3'- and '3'- to move backward one punch space so as to bring the next cause the shoulder 36 to alternately engage and trip the pawl 33- in one irection at the end of one revolution of the shoulder-carrying disk -17 and in the opposite direction at the end of the next revolution of the same disk, and that the punches 6 are arranged to successively register with the ribs 17 after each tripping operation of the pawl 33 as the disks 3- and 3 are shifted at the end of each twelve hours of the seven days.

For example, if the disks 3 and 3-- and 17 are in the position shown in Fig. 7 with the ribs -17 re istering with the outermost punch 6 and the pawl 33-- about to be engaged and tripped by the shoulder 36, the day, as Monday, and the time of day, asjust before six oclock p. in, then by properly inserting the time-card -A in one of the guides, as 2 and operating the hand-crank -l3-, both disks -17 and 17 will be moved endwise to operate the outermost punches and will punch a hole in the card near the outer margin of the outermost or Monday space and 311st preceding the radial division corresponding to six oclock p. 111., and indicates the end of an ordinary twelve-hour days work.

Now, as the disks -3 and 3 and 17 continue to be rotated by their respective pinions -30 and -32, the shoulder 36 will engage and trip the pawl .33 at six oclock p. m. and allow the spring -37 to retract the pinion 3Q- one quarter turn, as determined by the stop pawls -34- and pins 35, thereby turning the disks 3 and 3 backward one punch space and registering the'next punches of each series with their corresponding ribs --1'Z" so' that if the card is again inserted in either guide and the disk 17 operated before the next shift is made or during the succeeding twelve hours, another punch hole will be made in the card in the same annular space, but near the inner margin thereof and in the radial space corresponding to the time of day at which the pun'clr ing' operation takes place, and indicating that the workman has worked nights or overtime.

In like manner, each couplet of punches may be operated to record the ins and outs during the entire twenty-four hours of each day and each of the seven days of the week without special attention from the operator, other than to properly insert his card in the required guide and to then turn the hand-crank 13, the other operations being entirely automatic.

Secured to the front of the case -lis a suitable clock dial -10, around which are movable ordinary minute and hour hands 41, the latter being actuated interinittingly from the main shaft -28 through the medium of a clock train --42 to give the time of day.

What we claim is:

1. In a workmans time recorder of the character described, a card-holder in combination with a plurality of impressionmaking devices, chronometer-controlled means for simultaneously moving said devices about an axis relatively to said holder, manually operated means for operating one of said devices during one cycle of movement to make impressions on the card, and means for shifting the first-named means at the end of each cycle to register another one of said devices with the second-named means during another cycle of movement.

2. In a workmans time recorder of the character described, the combination with a time-card having concentric spaces for receiving impressions of a workmans ins or outs and a holder therefor, of a rotary support having a spirally arranged series of impression-making devices thereon, chronometer-controlled means for rotating said support about an axis coincident with the center of said spaces, and manually-operated means for operating one of said devices during one cycle of movement ofsaid sup port to make an impression thereon.

3. In a workmans time recorder of the character described, a card-holder in com bination with a rotary support having impression-making devices thereon at different distances from its axis, chronometer-controlled means for rotating said support step by step about said axis, manually-operated means for actuating one of said devices to make impressions on the card during one cycle of movement of the support, and means for shifting said support at the end of said I cycle to register another one of said devices with the last-named means during the next succeeding cycle.

4. In a workmans time recorder of the character described, a card-holder in combination with impression-making devices arranged spirally about an axis at right angles to the card in said holder, chronometer-controlled means for moving said device-s step by step about said axis, a rotary member registering with one of said devices and moving in unison therewith about said axis during one complete revolution, manuallyoperated means for moving the registering member axially into engagement with said device for making an impression on a card in the holder, and means for shifting the first-named means at the end of each revolution to register another one of said devices with the last named means.

5. In a workmans time recorder of the character described, the combination with a time-card having concentric spaces divided into sectors representing e ual intervals of time, impression-making evices, one for each space, chronometercontrolled means for successively registering said devices with their sectors, and means for imparting another movement to each device to make an impression in the sectors with which it is registered.

6. In a workmans time recorder of the character described, a card-holder in combination with impression-making devices arranged about an axis at different distances therefrom, chronometer-controlled means for moving said devices about said axis, means for operating said devices one at a time to make an impression on the card, and automatic means for shifting the first-named means relatively to the second-named means for registering difl'erent devices with said second-named means once during each revolution of the first-named means. I

7. In a Workmans time recorder of the character described, the combination with a time-card having concentric spaces representing days of a week, said, spaces being divided circumferentially into equal sectors representing intervals of a day, of a holder for said card, a support movable about an axis coincident with the center of the concentric spaces of the card, a series of impression-making devices mounted on said support in registration with the concentric spaces, chronometer-controlled means for rotating said support step by step to successively register said devices with the'sectors, of their corresponding concentric spaces, and means for operating said devices one at a time for making impressions in the sectors withwhich they may be registered.

8. In a worknianstime recorder of the character described, the combination of a guide for receiving a workmans time-card, a "rotary support, a series of impressionmaking devices mounted on the support about the axis thereof and at gradually diminishing distances from said axis from one end to the other end of the series, an actuating member for said devices, automatic means for shifting said support rotarily step by step once during each complete revolution to successively register said devices with the actuating member, and means for moving said member axially to operate the device which is registered therewith.

9. In a time recorder of the character described, a rotary carrier having a series of axially movable stamping devices arranged about its axis in equally spaced radial lines and at gradually varying distances from said axis from one end to the other end of the series, a rotary member having an independent axial movement for operating said devices one by one to make an impression, means for moving said devices step by step about said axis to successively register the devices with said member, means for moving the member axially for operating the device which is registered with said member, and means for holding an impression-receiving member in the path of the operated stamps devi e- 10. In a time recorder of the character described, a rotary carrier having a series of axially movable stamping devices arranged about its axis'in equally spaced radial lines and at gradually varying distances from said axis from one end to the other end vof the series, chronometer-controlled means for rotating said carrier and releasing it at the end each revolution, arotary member synchronized with the movementof the carrier to rotate therewith during such revolution and having an independent axial move ment for forcing the devices to their stamping position, means for shifting the carrier rotarily when released for successively registering the stamping devices with their actuating member, and means for moving said memheraxially for operating the stamping device which is registered therewith.

l1. Ina time recorder of the character described, the combination of a rotary carrier having a series of impression-making devices arranged spirally around the axis thereof in spaced relation and at equal angles from the center, means for supporting a time card in position to receive impressions from said dei'ices, n1amially-operated means registering with one of the devices for operating the same to make impressions upon the card, .chronon'ieter-actiiated means for rotating. said support, and additional n' eans torchanging the relation between the rotary snpport and said manually-operated means so as to massing latter to register with a F -Pia a th s new a" be ed *9? five as an. r m 1 diflerent impression making device at the end of each cycle of movement of the rotary support.

n a ime recorder of the character described, the c mbination with a card having an annular space for receiving impressions, impression-making devices movable about the center of said space at difierent distances from said center, means registerin with one of said devices during one revo ution for operating the registering device to make in) pressions in one concentric line in said space, an means f r changing he slet-ire posis s at said dev ces, a d Opera n mews at the of such revolution so, as t bring the other device into registration with said operating means.

13. In a time recorder of the character der bed, the cem inatiqn separ e d rs for an impression-receiving member, rotary supports, one for each holder, chronometer actuated means for rotating said supports simultaneously, each of said supports having a series of impression-making devices arranged spirally around the axis thereof, those of one support being different from these ot the other support and manuallycontrolled means for operating said devices to make their impressions upon the receiving member whic 1 may be registered therewith.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 13th day of December, 1916.

JAMES A. LOYSTEB. DANIEL M. TU TTLE. Witnesses:

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